One year after she was struck by a baseball bat in a robbery in Chicago, Armagh, Northern Irelandwoman Natasha McShane has made very little progress from her brain injury.

The Chicago Sun Times reports that Natasha’s father, Liam, now second guesses the decision to bring Natasha back to Ireland as she “she had setbacks from Day One....If this happened again,” Liam said, “we wouldn’t go home.”

On April 23rd last year, Natasha, a 23-year-old exchange student in Chicago was attacked outside a bar in the Bucktown section.

The McShanes say they found it very hard that they were not allowed to sleep in the room with their daughter in hospital like in Chicago. “She opened her eyes and looked over, and one of us was there all the time,” he said. That hasn’t been the case in Northern Ireland.

Does their daughter know know Sheila, her mother or Liam?

“Yeah, but sometimes, I don’t know,” he told the Sun Times.

Her friends often to visit. “We were talking to Natasha,” they’ll say.